Crop Biodiversity

Managing Biodiversity in Agricultural Ecosystems

March 23rd, 2013 | Bioversity Headquarters, Featured, Publications

 Published in more than three other languages and growing, Managing Biodiversity in Agricultural Ecosystems takes a look at how farmers manage, maintain, and benefit from biodiversity in agricultural production systems. The volume includes the most recent research and developments in the maintenance of local diversity at the genetic, species, and ecosystem levels. Chapters cover the [...]

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Global IFAD Crop Varietal diversity for pest and disease management workshop, Rome 25 Feb – 1 March 2013.

February 4th, 2013 | Bioversity Headquarters, Events

A Five days workshop has been organized by Bioversity International under the project, ” Improving productivity and resilience for the rural poor through enhanced use of crop varietal diversity in integrated production and pest management (IPPM)”funded by IFAD. Partners from Ecuador, China, Morocco and Uganda together with IFAD and Bioversity Staff, will be participating. Among [...]

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Crop genetic diversity to reduce pests and diseases on-farm

January 4th, 2013 | Bioversity Headquarters, Methodological Tips

Participatory diagnosis guidelines provide methodological guidelines in planning and implementing participatory diagnosis. They contain the general framework and procedures for undertaking participatory diagnosis, including tools for data collection and analysis.

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An Heuristic Framework for Identifying Multiple Ways of Supporting the Conservation and Use of Traditional Crop Varieties within the Agricultural Production System

December 12th, 2012 | Bioversity Headquarters, News

A monumental collation of experimental evidence for the first time offers answers to the question: how can farmers make better use of crop diversity. Making use of more than 15 years of collaboration with national partners, Devra Jarvis and her colleagues at Bioversity International have created what they call an heuristic framework to help farmers and researchers conserve and use traditional crop varieties.

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Can plant be protected by insects?

August 17th, 2011 | Bioversity Headquarters, News

Can plant be protected by insects when they are attacked by pests? The mechanisms of resistance to pests put in place by landraces to defend themselves from pests attacks are a very important source of resistance. With globalization, both resistant varieties and pests and pathogens move around As a consequence resistance genes in secondary centres [...]

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Can Biodiversity be Part of Pest and Disease Manage? Asking the Right Questions

July 28th, 2011 | Bioversity Headquarters, News

Much of the 30% of the world’s annual harvest lost to pests and diseases occurs in developing countries.   The resulting economic and food resource costs are, to a significant extent, a consequence of crops growing in monocultures and the continuing evolution of new races of pests and pathogens that are able to overcome resistance genes [...]

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Climate Changes and Pests and Diseases: a Quick Overview

July 20th, 2011 | Bioversity Headquarters, News

The effects of climate change on potential abiotic stresses are well known. Changes in CO2 concentration, increased temperature, increased drought, changing on rainfall patterns have all been documented in the IPCC reports (http://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/publications_and_data_reports.shtml) and in several recent publications. The effects of climate change will be different in different parts of the world and there exist [...]

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International Conference in Morocco

May 24th, 2011 | Bioversity Headquarters, Events, News

An International Conference entitled “Damage, Diversity and Genetic Vulnerability: the Role of Crop Genetic Diversity in Agricultural Production System” took place in Morocco from the 15th to the 17th of February. The conference, organized by the Intitut gronomique et Vétérinaire Hassan II with Bioversity international and the support of UNEP, SDC, Ford Foundation and FAO, [...]

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Devra Jarvis Presented Pests and Diseases in Paris

December 9th, 2010 | Bioversity Headquarters, Events, News

From the first to the third of December the Project Director Devra Jarvis presented the work in Paris at the EUCARPIA 2nd Conference of the “Organic and Low-Input Agriculture” entitled “Breeding for resilience: a strategy for organic and low-input farming systems?”. More information about the conference can be found at the following web site: https://colloque.inra.fr/eucarpia2010_organic_li/Programme.

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Policy Workshop in China – 20 November 2010

December 1st, 2010 | Bioversity Headquarters, China, Events

On the 20th of November a Policy workshop took place in Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, China to discuss on policy proposals that ensure the conservation of agricultural biodiversity. The workshop was a follow up of the one which took place in August. At the workshop participated representative of the Ministry of Agriculture, UNEP, Bioversity International from HQ, [...]

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